CAIRO, July 3, 2018 (MENA) - Egyptian House of Representatives approved during a session on Tuesday under speaker Ali Abdel Aal two presidential decrees on two agreements with Japan and the United States. The house approved decree no. 226 of 2018 on letters exchanged between Egypt and Japan on a loan estimated at 18.626 billion Japanese yens offered by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to the Egyptian government and signed on February 21, 2018. The approval came after discussing a report prepared by a joint committee from the ministries of education and scientific research and the committees of foreign relations and economic affairs of the parliament, which affirmed that the Japanese loan aims at implementing the Egyptian-Japanese partnership in the education domain. The House also approved presidential decree 174 of 2018 on a US grant to Egypt to improve health services, signed on September 26, 2017. The approval came after discussing a report prepared by the parliament's committees of health, economic, planning affairs.
